But meanwhile, poor Jerry Brown, who is an executive like Obama and a fellow Democrat is out in the cold. The governor of California has a big problem, the state is missing $16 billion dollars. One of the main reasons is that tax collections are down including nearly $2 billion in personal income taxes that haven’t been paid.

If Clooney would have just taken all the money he promised to Obama and paid it to Sacramento, in advance of the tax hike referendum, he could have helped his home state and supported the Obama proposition that everyone should do their fair share.